Dr. Jens Wiesner, LL.M. (Chicago)

Jens is specialised in national and international banking and finance law including the management of litigation. In addition to general advice, a focus of his practice is on the legal support of complex acquisition financing, real estate financing and project financing, acting on behalf of either the bank or the investor. Jens also advises on the areas of corporate restructuring and reorganisation.

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Career

Since 2014	Partner, Taylor Wessing
2009 – 2014	Associate, Taylor Wessing

Education

2013	Qualification as specialist lawyer for Banking and Capital Markets Law
2009	Admitted and established as a lawyer, Hamburg
2009	Second state examination, Hamburg

2009	Doctoral degree on a theme of law relating to foundations at the Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
2006	Master of Laws, University Chicago-Kent
2005	First state examination, Hamburg
2000 – 2005	Degree in law, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg

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Additional languages

English

Expertise

Sectors Financial institutions & insurance

Experience

Taylor Wessing advises Tishman Speyer on Financing of Gruner + Jahr Headquarters	Tishman Speyer develops the publishing headquarters of Gruner + Jahr. The office complex at the edge of the harbour, which was completed for Gruner + Jahr in 1990 to designs by the architects Otto Steidle and Jürgen Kiessler, with its significant, listed ship appearance is to be preserved.
Purchase of an under construction office complex near Berlin	Savills Investment Management (Savills IM) on the purchase of the "NUBIS" office complex in the Adlershof Science and Technology Park in Berlin, some of which is still under construction. The international real estate investment firm Savills IM has acquired the properties for its Savills IM European Commercial Fund (ECF). The transaction is part of an asset deal with Project Immobilien Gewerbe AG. The ensemble consists of three independent multi-tenant buildings with modern and flexible office space. A total of around 17,200 square metres of lettable space are spread across five to six floors. Each house has its own underground car park with a total of 86 parking spaces. The first building has already been completed and occupied by the tenants. The other two properties will be transferred to the Fund's portfolio when it is successively completed in the first half of 2019. In total, long-term leases have already been signed for more than 90 percent of the space. The main tenants are VBU Verkehrsbau Union Berlin GmbH (Eurovia) and TECHEM Energy Services GmbH.
A leading bank on the acquisition financing of 89 properties in Germany	A leading bank on the acquisition financing of 89 properties in Germany valued at EUR55m.

Awards

Chambers and Partners 2023	Ranked with Chambers and Partners for Real Estate: Finance
Chambers Europe 2021	Ranked as Notable Practitioner: Real Estate Finance
Chambers Europe 2020	Leading individual - Real estate: Finance - Germany (Up and coming): Jens Wiesner enters the rankings this year after consistently demonstrating strength in advising banks and funds on a variety of real estate financings and refinancings. He wins praise from one happy client, who considers him a "highly committed rock-star lawyer" who is "knowledgeable, pragmatic and customer- and deal-friendly."